



Since this was a piece of satire, I wonder if Jack was accurately depicting the Kirby/Lee collaborative process, or was he poking fun at Stan Lee's fanciful, fictionalized version of their working relationship popularized in Lee's self-promotional Bullpen Bulletins that appeared in all of the Marvel comic books every month.
Research seems to suggest Kirby and Lee spent very little time meeting face-to-face, especially in the mid-to-late 1960s -- Jack worked at his home -- and even when Lee did give Jack a plot, Kirby would make changes. Then, from around 1963 - 1979 Jack came up with stories on his own with very little to no direction from Lee.
Here is Stan Lee's famous quote on the Kirby-Lee partnership: “Some artists, of course, need a more detailed plot than others. Some artists, such as Jack Kirby, need no plot at all. I mean, I’ll just say to Jack, ‘Let’s let the next villain be Dr. Doom’... or I may not even say that. He may tell me... he just about makes up the plots for these stories. All I do is a little editing.”